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Yogurt War Exposes Big Food Flaws as Chobani Passes Yoplait
Yogurt War Exposes Big Food Flaws as Chobani Passes Yoplait

Greek yogurt passed General Mills’ top brand in popularity.

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China's $150 Billion Dining Out Scene Draws Foreign Dairy Firms

China's foodservice market is easier to penetrate for Fonterra and Friesland, as chefs trained in demo kitchens find ways to use dairy.  

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Dean Wants to Move Its Menu Beyond Milk With Juice, Ice Cream

CEO Scozzafava open to deals to diversify as milk volume drops.

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Wisconsin Gov. Walker Signs Pro-cheese Bill, First to Pass This Year

Gov. Scott Walker has signed into law the first bill to pass the Legislature this session, a measure designed to help Wisconsin's cheese industry.

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North Dakota Dairy Producers Hope to Save Industry

North Dakota dairy producers are hoping to save the declining industry by attracting a specialty dairy products plant.

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Michigan Cheesemaker Known for Big Cow Statue Adds Big Flag

The Michigan cheesemaker that turns heads with its larger-than-life statue of a milk cow at its shop entrance is making a big patriotic gesture. A storm toppled Williams Cheese Company's sign and U.S. flag in 2012, so owner Mike H. Williams resolved to replace the 6-by-10-foot flag at the store.

Wisconsin State Senate Passes Bill to Help Cheese Plant
Wisconsin State Senate Passes Bill to Help Cheese Plant

A Wisconsin cheese distributor has been approved for extended tax incentives. 

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Wisconsin State Senate to Vote on Rules, Cheese Plant

The state Senate in Wisconsin is proposing a bill to aid a cheese distributor. 

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Organic Dairy Considering Expansion in Missouri

Aurora Organic Dairy is looking at expanding into Missouri by purchasing a manufacturing plant.

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Upstate NY Ice Cream Plant Expands; 61 New Jobs Created

An ice cream plant in western New York is expanding.

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Yili Surges on $680 Million Shengmu Organic Milk Stake Buy

Use of proceeds includes paying for 37 percent Shengmu stake.  

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Ice Cream Maker Plans $40.5 Million Expansion in Iowa

Ice cream maker Well Enterprises plans a $40.5 million expansion that will create 81 jobs in Le Mars, Iowa.

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Farm Groups Denounce Dannon's Anti-GMO 'Marketing Flimflam'

In letter, groups call the pledge ‘major step backwards’.

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Blue Bell: Testing Helps Create Safe Treats Post-2015 Recall

In the wake of another recall of its ice cream products, Blue Bell has stood firm in its belief that a "robust" testing program it implemented following last year's listeria contamination is helping the company create safe treats.

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'Healthy Milk Boom' Prompts Dean to Raise DairyPure Prices

Dean introduced DairyPure to rival organic and plant-based milk.

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Man Charged with Stealing $160,000 Worth of Jamaican Cheese

A New Jersey man has been charged with stealing more than $160,000 worth of Jamaican cheese.

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Former Exec gets Probation, $5K Fine over Counterfeit Cheese

A former executive will spend three years on probation and pay a $5,000 fine because two Pennsylvania cheese businesses her family controlled sold grated Swiss and mozzarella cheeses that were mislabeled and fraudulently represented as Parmesan and Romano cheese instead.

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Exec, Companies Set for Sentencing in Imitation Cheese Case

An executive and two Pennsylvania cheese businesses her family controlled are set for sentencing for selling grated Swiss and mozzarella cheeses as parmesan and romano and adding more wood pulp to the products than the law allows.

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Beleaguered Blue Bell Issues Another Listeria-Related Recall

Blue Bell Creameries is recalling all of its ice cream products that contain cookie dough from an Iowa-based supplier.

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Michigan Dairy Recalls Some Milk, Egg Nog, Ice Cream

A Michigan dairy is conducting a voluntary recall of some of its products due to the failure of equipment used to verify proper pasteurization during processing.

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Parmesan Fraudster May Get Food Pantry Time Instead of Jail

Fake cheese distributed across the nation from 2010 to 2013.

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Billionaire French Milk King Shaken by Lactalis Farmer Protests

Billionaire French Milk King Shaken by Lactalis Farmer Protests

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3 Generations of Dairy Workers Help Plant Run Smoothly

The Lanham family has working in the dairy industry at the same plant since 1944.

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Organic Valley Buys Oregon Creamery

The nation's largest organic dairy cooperative announced it is buying Oregon's Farmers Creamery Cooperative.

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Innovations in California Dairy Shows New Strategies

A California dairy is bringing new innovations into the barn, despite obstacles. 

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Upper Midwest Ripe for a New Dairy Processing Plant

As milk production has increased in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, the Upper Midwest has become ripe for a new dairy processing plant.

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Texas Hands Blue Bell Potential $850K Fine Over Listeria

Texas fined Blue Bell Creameries for a listeria contamination last year linked to the deaths of three people, but the ice cream maker could end up paying only a fraction of the $850,000 penalty under an agreement announced Friday.

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Umpqua Dairy Celebrates 85 Years as Family-owned Company

It's the time of year to celebrate ice cream, milk and cottage cheese with June as National Dairy Month and July as Ice Cream Month. Umpqua Dairy in Oregon plans to take its concession cart to special events throughout the season.

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Judge Approves $50M Settlement to Northeast Dairy Farmers

A federal judge on Tuesday approved a $50 million settlement to be paid by a national dairy marketing cooperative to thousands of Northeast dairy farmers.

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Fonterra Milk Price Forecast Falls Short of Expectations

Low dairy incomes may bolster case for another RBNZ rate cut.

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Danone Wins Back Russians With Peasant Yogurt, Siberia Bog Fruit

Dairy maker using local flavors like cloudberry and bilberry.

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Dean Foods Buys Friendly's Ice Cream-making Business

The Friendly's restaurant chain has sold its ice cream manufacturing and retail business to Dean Foods Co. for $155 million.

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Dean Foods Beats 1Q Profit Forecasts

Dean Foods Co. on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $39.2 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

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Nestle Axes GMO Ingredients and Additives in Some U.S. Ice Cream

Nestle SA is eliminating artificial flavors and colors from some U.S. ice-cream products as the world’s biggest food company steps up efforts to remove additives from its portfolio.

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Chocolate Milk Maker Wanted Study Touted with "Concussion"

A small chocolate milk company wanted publicity touting the purported ability of its drink to help high school athletes recover from concussions to coincide with the Will Smith movie "Concussion," according to emails obtained by The Associated Press.

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China Tax Rules to Cool Gray Market for Danone, A2 Baby Milk

Dairy companies Danone, Australia's a2 Milk, and Bellamy's may face difficulties as infant formula sold through overseas websites face higher taxes.

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Farmers, 2 Co-ops Plan $58M Cheese Plant in Western New York

A European dairy cooperative is teaming up with a national milk marketing cooperative and local farmers to open a cheese plant in western New York.

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Federal Judge Enters Injunction Against Cheese Manufacturer

A federal court in Detroit has entered an injunction against a suburban company to prevent the distribution of adulterated cheese products.

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Blue Bell: Listeria Likely Spread in Oklahoma Plant Drainage

Blue Bell Creameries told federal inspectors that it believes that listeria bacteria spread at its Oklahoma plant through a drainage system, but the company said it couldn't identify a single source of listeria that contaminated equipment at its flagship facility in the Central Texas town of Brenham.

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Indiana Wal-Mart Plant Could Use Milk Now Sent Elsewhere

A new milk processing plant in northeastern Indiana recently announced by Wal-Mart could cut into the amount of milk that dairy farmers currently have to ship out of state.

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5 Taken to a Hospital After Ammonia Leak at Phoenix Dairy

Authorities say five people have been taken to a hospital after an ammonia leak at a west Phoenix dairy.

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Higher Crude Oil Prices Could Lift Powder Prices

Nonfat dry milk/skim milk powder prices tend to rise and fall with crude oil prices.

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Brown's Dairy to Close its New Orleans Milk-processing Plant

Brown's Dairy is phasing out production at its milk-processing plant in New Orleans and moving operations to Hammond, La., the company said Tuesday.

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Dean Faces New Challenge as Wal-Mart Gets Into the Milk Business

Dean Foods Co., the largest U.S. milk processor, faces competition from an unexpected source: its biggest customer.

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Chobani Plans to Expand Idaho Yogurt Plant

The Greek yogurt company Chobani is planning to expand its Idaho factory, already the largest yogurt manufacturing plant in the world.

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Dairy Farmers Display Their Gratitude in New York City

Dairy farmers who belong to the Cabot Creamery cooperative took over the streets of New York City this past weekend to show their gratitude to consumers. 

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View From The Top: Q & A with Beth Ford, Executive Vice President and COO, Land O' Lakes, Inc.

Question and answer session with Beth Ford, Executive Vice President and COO, Land O’Lakes, Inc. 

Company Executives Plead Guilty in Mislabeled Cheese Case
Company Executives Plead Guilty in Mislabeled Cheese Case

A woman whose family controls a western Pennsylvania cheese-making operation is scheduled to plead guilty — along with two of her companies — to charges that their grated cheese had too little cheese and too much wood pulp.

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Dairy Group Wants to Increase Milk Processing in Region

The North Dakota Dairy Coalition is seeking state funding to research the possibility of a new milk processing plant in the region.

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Vermont Company to Supply Greek Yogurt for USDA Program

A Vermont-based dairy company has been selected as one of the suppliers of Greek yogurt for the USDA National Lunch Program for April, May and June.